Unions for personnel (What do they do? Who do they represent?)
- Equity - Equity is the torch-bearer for good working practices in the UK entertainment industry. They support their members at work by establishing their terms and conditions and rates of pay, and by helping them face challenging situations situations in the workplace such as bullying or harassment. Equity membership includes many benefits such as insurance and work related legal advice. They also help students who can get a student membership as this prepares them for the workplace as you can become a student member as soon as you start your course.
- BECTU - Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph, and Theatre Union became a sector of the prospect trade in the United Kingdom. Their union represents staff, contract and freelance workers who are based primarily in the UK. BECTU provides a wide range of services to it's circa 40,000 members. Members are grouped into local branches which send representatives to the policy making annual conference.
- PACT - Pac supports its members with legal and business affairs advice and support, as well as a wide range of services and campaign work. It helps to shape the best possible regulatory and legislative environment for the independent production sector to grow domestically and internally.
Legal requirements (look at the film London website/legal for some of these)
- Insurance - All productions need proof of public liability insurance in order to receive permission to film or carry out commercial photography. This insurance covers the legal responsibility of production if the activities cause injuries to a third party or damage to the property. This policy should be maintained through the early stages of pre-production and kept through all post production activities. It is legally required filmmakers have a minimum of £2 million cover for street photography. In some areas yo are required to have a minimum of £5 million. Making a film requires a lot of planning and paperwork to make sure that everyone is safe, which means for every location there must be a risk assessment.
- Health and safety - Professional film crews take health and safety very seriously. The line of responsibility runs from producer to production manager and first assistant director and finally on to all crew members. If someone can see the potential for an accident and does nothing too try and prevent it, they can be held personally responsible if anything happens to anyone. When filming, people have many things on their minds which results in people rushing and the risk of accidents increasing. During the filming of Star Wars VII, paramedics were called to the studio to attend to a 71 year-old man who had injured his ankle when a door fell from the set of the millennium falcon. The man was Harrison Ford who was then out of action for several weeks.
- Working with children - It is important for filmmakers to check if their actors require a Child Performance Licence. A child performance licence is issued by the education welfare department of the local authority or borough in which the child resides, unless the child is at boarding school. For example, in the Harry Potter franchise, the filmmakers were only able to film for a certain amount of time a day, due to most of the scenes in the films include children. This is also due to the fact children cannot be filming for over a certain amount of time a day because of school as they will be learning. To avoid clashing with school work, the filmmakers will make schedules for the children to ensure they are able to film without it interfering with their learning.
- Working with animals - It is imperative anyone working with animals to to know both the safety and well being of the animals. Filmmakers need to make sure the people supplying them with the animals has an animal training license registered under the 1925 performing animals act. In addition, the trainer must have public liability insurance.
- Minimum pay - All actors have to be paid with in minimum wage, this being a legal requirement.
Copyright
- MCPS/PRS - PRS for music is the Performing Rights Society. PRS are committed to to protecting the value the value of music and ensuring their members are represented, which is why they are fighting music piracy and tackling the changes that digital has brought to the industry. They collect when its members works been performed or communicated to the public. They also collect royalties through licensing agreements with music users. These licences cover all kinds of music use, whether it for digital, broadcast or public performance. MCPS is the Mechanical-copyright Protection Society. MCPS collects when it's members work is copied.
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